Metallica, thanks for all of your great music stuffs from the first album until now, legendary band. People keep talking without walking but you guys keep on doing both and rocking!
I hate all the flack that Kirk Hammet gets. He was an amazing addition to Metallica and brought great freshness to their sound. I really hope that he takes some time to explore his lead work again before the next album. If he could catch up with Satch, Vai, Michael Romeo, Tosin Abassi, Guthrie Govan, petrucci and rediscover all the developments in lead guitar from over the past 10 years. Then come back to Metallica with some fresh material. Maybe we can get a spirtual successor to their 80's albums. They have the chops but just missing that vibe to connect with underground that made them famous in the first place.
Kirk is in his 50's, his hair is grey, stringy, thinning, like the actual hair of a 50 year old. Marky is in his mid 60's and has thick, dark, lustrous hair like a 22 year old punk. Totally not a wig though
In terms of influence and the amount of great songs in the music world.... Metallica is same league as The Beatles. A different time and era, a completely different genre of music, but so influential to so many people. Think of how many people started playing guitar because of James and/or Kirk. The endless great quality songs and music, like the Beatles. James and Lars are the John and Paul in Metallica. Lars is totally similar to Paul when we see all the footage from that series that came out with The Beatles. I saw many times the similarities and it was cool to see.
Nothing about Rob in either interviews. He deserves more recognition for his role. He was there a lot in the studio when Lars and James were nutting out riffs and structuring songs. Rob put forward his ideas in those sessions which Im sure influenced parts of the songs. Yet in all the interviews with James, Lars and Kirk they rearly say anything about that. Infact James says He and Lars wrote the album. Yeah they probably wrote most of it but Kirk had solos to write and ROb had his parts to write which all adds as a collective.
First, Ramone looks and sounds like he is waiting to catch a bus. Second, Kirk says "I don't like being in the studio" and I can just imagine Hetfield somewhere yelling "YEAH!!! (thank God)." Third, Kirk was right about Fidelman mixing the Hardwired album... He redeemed himself from Death Magnetic. Death Magnetic was trashed by Rick Rubin's massive desire to over-compress and brickwall the shit out of the mix, pushing albums beyond the dB limit that the digital media can handle. In that respect, Hardwired sounds a million times better than Death Magnetic. And although Lars is using drum triggers now, the drum sound just has that "epic" beefy snap to the snare and kick drums with the slight echo, kind of like the MOP and Black album. Hardwired shines brightest with Spit Out the Bone... Who would have thought after watching the Some Kind of Monster documentary, that fast-forwarding into 2016 James and Lars would sit down and create a thrashy, 500-mph juggernaut that is also heavy, mixed with tons of exciting riffs and a couple of sections where James (obviously) blended the Black Album idea of "The Wall of Guitars" with a speedy and heavy blitzkrieg found in the first four albums of downpicking, melody, chromatics and excitement all layered on top of each other (most audible in the send-offs of Kirk's solos). Granted, you're never going to hear multiple guitars played like this live, but it sounds absolute genius on the album. And with that, I am pretty sure James was happy to work on things like this in the studio without Kirk sitting around whining about it lol.
Exactly and it's great and important that this is constantly brought out so we can get rid of those ridiculous compressions. That just kills all fine details.
I think he was talking about post black album stuff, because on the earlier stuff, if you listen to the demos, all the solos sound like ass. In the black album making of Bob rock suggests that Kirk should go and study and practices none stop, live and breathe this solo and Lars replies with "That's just not he is" suggesting that Kirk writes his stuff more so on the spot. I also remember reading or watching an interview where Kirk mentions that everyone used to come into the studio randomly. So Kirk would be alone in the studio. He says he liked the privacy, which is probably how he came up with such good shit. He didn't feel pressured to preform masterful in front of the guys, he could keep writing until something clicks. Also, Kirk dismissed Bob rocks advice outright in that clip. He told Kirk where to take the solo emotionally and Kirk said "Yeah nah, fuck that. why can't i do it this way?" and Bob rock said fuck it and wanted to see Kirk fail, so he could prove his point, yet Kirk proceeded to create one of my favorite solos on the spot.
I lost 200+ riffs When I lost my IPhone. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Kirk Hammett fan but I can't see myself forgetting every riff out of 200 plus I record like a MF. Oh well the album rocked. Hope they keep going in this direction
I record mine too but out of 200 I can at least remember 40% as opposed to 0. It's not a special talent. It's called practice practice practice, especially if you are a pro like Kirk and especially if you want any input within your band as to what makes it on the album.
SerioosSam Kirk may have been on an upper but I am pretty sure Ramone filled a homeless guy's trash can full of weed and smoked it all right before they recorded this.
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